How Bradley Cooper Plans to Fix the Gender Pay Gap

American Hustle and American Sniper star Bradley Cooper, who is American, is serious about closing the gender pay gap in Hollywood. On the heels of Cooper's frequent co-star Jennifer Lawrence's op-ed on the pay gap, a fed-up Cooper is willing to take matters in his own hands. Speaking with Reuters, Cooper said he wants to start negotiating his salary alongside his female co-stars.

“She worked everyday on that movie and got paid nothing. It’s really horrible actually, it’s almost embarrassing,” Cooper said of his American Hustle costar Amy Adams. Cooper went on to say he would “[team] up with his female co-stars to negotiate salaries before any film he is interested in working on goes into production."

This is pretty cool! Cooper being ready to put his money where his mouth is hopefully also puts pressure on other actors to do the same. The collective negotiation is not completely unheard of: The Friends cast famously negotiated all their salaries together to ensure equal pay. Nearly two decades later, it's kind of inexcusable when Lawrence, one of the biggest stars in the world, is not getting paid as much as she deserves.